Innovative vehicle lighting for active safety and comfort

Good lighting can increase visual comfort. For example, today's free-form surface headlights can control the beam to illuminate road markings and verges for additional visual guidance. All European headlights with HID are equipped with headlamp cleaning and therefore able to show less glare than halogen headlights. In conjunction with dynamic headlamp levelling, they produce a steady and reliable field of vision. The AFS-initiative sets out to increase visual performance for varying road or weather situations by taking into account the comfort requirements of drivers and traffic. Vehicle lighting provides for vision and visibility. A current trail evaluates the significance of marked contours on trucks and heavy-goods vehicles with respect to accidents. In the vehicle interior there is a noticeable move away from point light sources in the dashboard or cockpit area. The driver is distracted less when displays are back-lit, switches marked by their contour and feeling for space created by unobtrusive, ambient light. [A] For the covering abstract, see IRRD 896528.